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In-Depth: Zimbabwe's Humanitarian Crisis

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Tinashe Moyo, The Zimbabwe dollar is not only worthless but unavailable


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"It's like waiting to find out if you will get eaten by lions"
Urban patients now referred to rural mission hospitals
Children on the edge of survival
Routine HIV testing a long way off
"It is all just misery, death and pain"
Cholera outbreak eclipsing AIDS crisis
"He begged for forgiveness and I did just that"
Relief as Global Fund grants approval
Elections 2008

Too early for forgiving
SADC's big headache
A low-key presidential poll
Aid will flow if Mugabe goes
A pro-democracy survivor's guide
Crackdown hits new intensity
Voices out of the violence
Hunger drives post-election violence
Electoral commission closes shop
Victory, "sweeter than a miracle!"
From the archives

Focus on rape as a political weapon - 2003

Focus on Utete committee report - 2003

Chronology of "fast-track" land reform - 2002

Focus on impact of political violence - 2001

Focus on UN panel report on DRC - 2001

Interview with land expert Sam Moyo - 2001

Focus on the constitutional referendum - 2000
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ZIMBABWE: Multimedia coverage, links and stories

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Aid money almost too tight to mention

JOHANNESBURG, 12 March 2009 (IRIN) - The international humanitarian community's most important tool for raising resources for action in Zimbabwe, the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), is out of date and in need of revision. The question is whether appealing for more funds to keep pace with worsening conditions will actually translate into enough money to remedy them. full report




FRONTLINE REPORTS
Governance more 

· Who controls the water determines the severity of cholera
· Hardliners frustrating release of detainees
· Abduction threatens unity government
· Underwhelming confidence in power-sharing deal
· The darkness before the dawn?
· Tracking the descent

Economy/survival more 

· Crynos Mufombori, "My heart bleeds for the school children"
· A donor-dependent region seeks to bail out Zimbabwe
· Remittances saved the country from collapse
· Teachers dig their heels in over dollars
· 94 percent of schools fail to open
· Inflation at 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent

Cholera more 

· On the cholera frontline
· 30 strains of cholera as death toll approaches 4,000
· Too much cholera, too little food - UN mission
· Zimbabwe's health crisis goes way beyond cholera
· Worst-case cholera scenario getting worse
· Political deal will not stem cholera deaths – MDC

Food security

· Hunger greater than previously thought
· Corruption bedevils farming inputs
· South Africa goes ahead with urgent aid




Neighbours more 

· Siniukai Madondo, "We were thinking when we came off the train we'd find jobs"
· One-stop 72-hour process to legalize Zimbabweans
· Is it time to go home?
· Arrest sours plans for leaving Botswana
· Farewell South Africa, but not just yet



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